My husband and I love traveling. He retired from 37 years in education onJune 30, 2008 and we took a couple months traveling in our 5th-wheel trailer. I have always wanted to see Banff and the stupendous mountains in the Canadian Rocky Mountains so that was our first destination.

Due to our love of traveling, I purchased the Travel Log Kit (126022) a long time ago but have not used it until this week. I was using it for a different project and discovered it has some wonderful designer series paper patterns. They inspired this scrapbook page of our trip to the Banff Provincial park. The Travel Log Kit has an embellishment of a couple of clouds with the saying Enjoy the Journey and an image of an airplane on it. Since we took a road trip, that embellishment wouldn't work so well. I used my global search feature of MDS2 to find other clouds in my downloads and chose to use clouds from the Sunshine & Sprinkles Ensemble (130668). I added the text using a Comic Sans MS font. I urge you to check out the various kits available for download. You may not want to use them for scrapbooks but they do contain some wonderful designer series papers, stamp brush sets, and embellishments that can be used in cards. Click on the linked names of the product I used or visit my online store to order this kit and ensemble. If you do order either ensemble, email me a photo of your project and I will feature it on my blog.

Oh, yes…today is Terrific Tuesday! I almost forgot to include the link to the new digital downloads for today. Click here to view them and order the ones you want. You know you want some!!!

Thanks for coming by to visit today. Grap a cup of coffee or tea and relax a bit while browsing through my projects.

Until your next visit…blessings,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

So it is Wednesday evening and you forgot to buy Valentines for your child to take to school in the morning. MDS2 to the rescue! Download the Officially Awesome Valentines Designer Template (133009) and you will be creating Valentines within minutes. The template even includes patterns for the envelopes. I chose to use the wider of the two tags on the Two Tags Stampin' Up! Bigz die (115954) to cut out envelopes from Real Red cardstock. I printed out the cards on Whisper White card stock and cut them apart. Then I created a page of mustaches that had been sized to 3.5" wide and printed it out. I cut out the mustaches, punched a hole in the middle of them and put them on the sucker sticks. When a person sucks on the sucker, the mustache will be in front of their lips…so cute! Have your child sign the cards, put them on the tag and fold it up. Finially stick the end of the sucker into the hole in the tag and you are done! Almost instant Valentines! :o)

I wish you lots of love on Valentine's Day,

Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Have you heard the buzz about Sale-a-bration? During this promotion which runs Jan 22 – March 22, you can choose a free product from our Sale-a-bration brochure for each $50 you spend. We digital girls are not left out! There are two digital content discs you can choose as your free items. One is Lemonade Stand. The index is below.

The other content disc is One Big Sale-a-bration2013 Digital Disc which includes all the SAB artwork and punches in the brochure.

What a deal! Get busy making your list of downloads you want and then order $50 of product to get your choice of one of these digital discs. Orders placed with Stampi' Up!'s official printing service count towards Sale-a-bration as well. Now is the time to finish up those scrapbooks you have been working on and get them printed. You will love the quality of our professionally printed products!

Thanks for stopping by to visit today. I look forward to your next visit.

Until then…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

We made this Valentine last month at our montly stamping group. I just love this Oh Whale! stamp set (w-129129, c-129132) which came out in the Spring Stampin' Up! catalog. You will be seeing more cards using this cheery little whale in the next few posts. The heart is from the More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper (129309). Two sheets of this pack are a sheet of die-cut hearts. One side is either Real Red or Primose Petals and the reverse side is Whisper White.

The background is Primrose Petal Core'dinations card stock (129322) embossed with the Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (129378) and then sanded with Stampin' Up!'s sanding block.

I cut the greeting out using one of the Bitty Banners Framelits Die (129267). Order your supplies to make this project or anything you have run out of by clicking on the links or visiting my online store.

Thanks for stopping by to visit today. Grab a cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa and take a break from your day while you browse the projects I have to share with you on my blog.

Until your next visit…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

I'm so excited to share this Pop 'n Cuts card with you! The Card Base Pop 'n Cuts (130099( creates a card with little slits to close the card. So cool! I cut a piece of Scyamore Street Designer Series Paper (it's a free Sale-a-Bration choice) with the largest shape of the Apothecary Accents Framelits (127003). Then I stamped the Tea for Two stamp from the  Tea Shoppe stamp set (c-125547, w-125545) on Whisper White card stock with Soft Suede ink and cut it out with another of the Apothecary Accents Framelits. A bow of Early Espresso 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon finishes off the card front.

Now the real surprise is inside! Look what happens when you open the card!

I love it! I trimmed parts of the Dress Form Pop 'n Cuts (130100) to create a table. I attached pieces of Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper and Crumb Cake card stock behind the table to cover the openings of the Pop 'n Cut. I used the Delicate Doilies Sizzlit (126999) to cut out the tablecloth from Whisper White card stock. The window over the table is stamped with stamps from the Cottage Window stamp set (c-127282, w-127280). I has so much fun creating this card and have several more ideas on how to use the Dress Form Pop 'n Cut die as a pop up card.

To order the supplies I used so you can also make this card, either click on the item names or visit my online store. I appreciate your business.

Thanks for coming by to visit today. Come back tomorrow to see another way I used the die other than being a dress form.

Until your next visit…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

Can you believe this? They will sell out quickly so click here  to check them out right now!

Until your next visit…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

This beautiful Freehand Frames Overlays stamp brush set is the 4th free download we can earn IF…about 11,700 downloads of each free digital download are downloaded by tomorrow. I am sure that number is less as it was posted a couple of days ago but I'm sure we haven't reached the goal yet. Please pass the word around to all your friends and encourage them to get the free downloads. They will work with any digital designing software that handles .jpeg and .png files and works with layers. However, they work best with MDS and MDS2. If your friends haven't tried MDS2, get them to download the FREE 30-day trial of MDS2. Here is the link http://www.stampinup.com/ECWEB/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=130910&dbwsdemoid=33458. I'm standing by to give them all the help they need.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); A Split Second Designer Template Pages (132562)

Have you done it? Have you downloaded the FREE digital downloads that Stampin' Up! is giving us as part of a week-long celebration of National Digital Scrapbooking Day? If not, please do so because if 18,000 downloads are done, we will get another free download at the end of the week! Click here to see the downloads and order them. Remember, they are FREE. If you don't have MDS2 yet and are not sure you will like digital crafting, then give our 30-day Free trial of MDS2 a whirl. I'm sure you will become as addicted to it as I am. If you have any questions or problems, I am always delighted to help.

I chose to use the A Split Second Designer Template Pages download to share on this post to see if the title of the template was an indication of how long it took to make the pages. Well…I have to confess it took me much longer for several reasons. First I didn't have photos with the right orientation so I had to rotate the frames and reposition them. Then I didn't like the gray chevrons so I recolored them. Finally, I just had to have the journaling fit exactly on the journaling lines. I took a bunch of time playing with the font size and the line spacing to get it to fit. But I'm that way. When I knit a sweater, I generally am not content to follow the pattern exactly with the same colors and patterns. There is usually something I want to change. I am a terrible CASEer (Copy And Share Everything). I really like to change things up just a bit.

Well…I'm off to play some more with the free downloads. Oh…I almost forgot! This is Terrific Tuesday. We got 4 new downloads to purchase today. Click here to see them and order the ones you know you'll want. I know the photos of the downloads are quite small. Just click on them to see a bigger view and then click one more time to see an even bigger photo.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Spook Central Designer Ensemble (127589), Bitty Bat punch (122152)

Yes, a second post from My Digital Craft Corner. There is so much happening at Stampin' Up! That I couldn't get it all in one post. This is just too good a deal not to share it with you.

Today is Sell-A-Stamp Spooktacular where ALL SU stamps including the wheels are 15% off except for hostess stamps and stamps that are part of a bundle. For instance, the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set combined with the Holiday Ornaments framelits is not on sale but the stamp set by itself is. This is a one-day-only sale so you must order today to take advantage of the sale. Order through my online store. If you order $150 worth of products through my store you will still get hostess benefits. The prices online have been adjusted just today for the sale price. This is a perfect time to get items on your wish list and to purcase gifts for your stamping friends!

Did you know that you can customize any of the templates in MDS and MDS2? I used the postcard Halloween invitation template from the Spook Central Designer Ensemble as my starting point for the picture at the top of the page. After opening the template, I unlocked all the page elements. Then I deleted the texts on the invitation and added my own text. I felt the words were kind of lost against the background so I added an enlarged square punch filled with Going Gray and an opacity of 50%. Then I moved that layer just behind my text. I also added three bat punches filled with Basic Black. If you haven't given digital crafting a try yet with MDS2, click on the Free 30-day trial in he supply list to order it. You have nothing to lose if you don't like the program but a lot to lose if you don't give it a try. I would love to help you get started enjoying the exciting possibilities of digital crafting.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com